PASADENA – Mountain View High School got sneaky and Marshall paid the price in the final nonleague game for both teams Thursday night.

Operating out of the shotgun formation, Jorge Munoz ran the quarterback draw five consecutive times in one series, 14 times in all, and the Vikings scored a 27-6 victory at Muir High School.

“Watching their film, we saw that they were really aggressive on defense,” Mountain View coach James Wilson said. “We thought we would go with draws and screen passes. For once, the game plan worked.”

Munoz scored a touchdown on one of those draws, a 2-yard run for the game’s first score early in the second quarter, and two of his screen passes to tailback Chris Valdez went for scores, 37 and 31 yards.

“I was not surprised,” Marshall coach Ricky Pickens said of the Vikings’ game plan.

The Vikings built a 27-0 lead through three quarters. They enter Mission Valley League play next week against Rosemead with a 2-3 record.

The Eagles lost their 25th consecutive game and are 0-5. They play Calvary Chapel of Downey in their Alpha League opener next week.

It took awhile for Munoz to find his footing. Neither team could move the ball in the first quarter. But Munoz found running room on delays up the middle to start the second quarter. On fourth-and-three from the Marshall 36, he took a draw 15 yards up the middle. On the next play, he again went 15 yards up the middle. It took three more draws, starting from the 6, for him to score.

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